Tool.



-F.E.G0 RDON. TOOL. APPLICATION FILED MAR.10, 1908.

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FRED E. GORDON, OF LINCOLN, MAINE.

TOOL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 1, 1908.

Application filed. March 10, 1908. Serial N 0. 420,141.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED E. GORDON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Lincoln, in the county of Penobscot and State of Maine, have invented a new and Improved Tool, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is an improvement in special tools of the plier type, having more especially for its purpose the provision of a suitable device for tightening rimless glasses without removing the lens from the mount. This I accomplish by providing an ordinary pair of pliers, comprising handles having "jaws adapted to grasp the stud or neck of the mount, with a third member composed of a handle having a jaw and supported upon one side'of the pliers to move in a plane at approximately right-angles to the plane of movement of the plier handles and jaws, the third member being reversely curved so that both its handle and jaw pass to the opposite side of the pliers from the point of its support.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is an edge view of my improved tool; Fig. 2 is a side view of the tool showing the stud or neck of the mount in section; and Fig. 3 is a central section through the pivot pin of the tool, with one of the plier jaws and the third jaw of the third member in engagement with the lens mount.

More specifically described, my invention includes a pair of pliers, the members of which are each composed of the usual handle 5 and the aws 6, one of the members preferably being of reduced width and passing through a slot in the opposite member where they are pivotally connected together by a pin 7. The jaws 6 have transverse grooves 8 which register when the jaws are closed, and provide a substantial circular opening of such size as to engage the neck or stud of the mount on a pair of rimless' glasses. The jaws 6 are also cut out or grooved transversely at the rear of the grooves 8,'forming an opening 9 when the jaws are brought together.

The pivot pin 7 is held in place by a screw lOat one side of the tool and by a shoulder at the opposite side from which it is extended some distance and is bifurcated at its extremity for receiving a third member consisting of a handle 11 and a jaw 12. The third member where it passes through the pivot pin is constructed with a slot 13 running approximately longitudinally of the tool, and through which and the pivot pin passes a screw or pin 14 connecting these parts together. The third member of the tool is reversely curved so that the jaw is adapted to project through the opening 9 and the handle passes between the handles of the pliers to the opposite side.

In the use of the tool, the stud or neck of the mount is clamped by the jaws of the pliers in the grooves 8, and the handle 11 of the third member is pressed against the shoe or rim of the mount, bending it into close contact with the lens. The jaw 12, it will be noted, is provided with a forwardly and laterally directed pointed portion which admits of the pressure being brought directly on the point required, by shifting the third member relative to its pivot 14, which is made possible by the slot 13. By means of this tool, when the lenses become loose it is unnecessary to detach them from the mount in order that the latter may be suitably bent, but the bending is more eifectively and accurately carried out with the lens in place.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. The combination of a pair of pliers, and a member pivotally supported on one side of the pliers, having a jaw movable transversely of and between the plier jaws.

2. The combination of a pair of pliers, and a third member pivotally and slidably supported on one side of the pliers, having a jaw movable between the plier jaws.

3. The combination of a pair of pliers, and a reversely curved member pivotally and slidably supported from one side of the pliers, having a jaw movable between the plier jaws.

4. The combination of two crossed mem' bers pivotally connected together and comprising handles and jaws, and a reversely curved third member pivotally supported on the pivot of the first two members and having a jaw movable transversely of and between the first mentioned jaws.

5. The combination of two members comprising handles and jaws, a pivot pin connecting the two members together and extended at one side thereof, and a third memher pivotally supported on the extended pivot pin of the first two members and hav ing a jaw movable transversely of and between said jaws.

6. The combination of two crossed members comprising handles and jaws, a pivot pin connecting the two members together and extended at one side thereof and a re versely curved third member pivotally and slidably supported on the extended portion of the pivot pin and having a jaw movable between said jaws.

7 The combination of two members comprising handles and jaws, a pivot pin connecting said members together and extended at one side thereof, and a reversely curved third member pivoted on the extended portion of the pivot pin and having a jaw movable between said jaws in the plane at approximately right-angles to the plane of movement thereof.

8. In a tool for tightening the lens in the mount of glasses, jaws movable to and from each other adapted to engage the stud of the mount, and a third jaw movable between the first mentioned jaws adapted to engage the shoe of the mount and force it I in a direction approximately at right-angles to the plane of movement of said jaws.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRED E. GORDON. lVitnesses CLARENCE E. CULDEN, MoonY D. CUTLER. 

